THE WASHINGTON TIMES Deadline for closing camp of 3,400 nears A senior U.S. official Wednesday warned Iraq against using violence to evict unarmed Iranian dissidents from a camp north of Baghdad by the end of the month, as a top member of Congress accused the State Department of moving at a snail’s pace to prevent…
Author: Ashish Kumar Sen
Iran refugees fear bloodbath
THE NEW YORK POST As he hosts Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Monday, President Obama will need to hastily tie upIraq’s loose ends — including CampAshraf, a mess that could quickly turn ugly and cloud Obama’s chance to claim “promise fulfilled” on ending the Iraq war. At year’s end, as US troops leave Iraq, Maliki…
G.O.P. Lawmakers Want Iranian Group Off Terrorism List
THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON — Republican legislators pressed the Obama administration on Wednesday to remove an Iranian opposition group known as the M.E.K. from its list of terrorist organizations and to do more to resettle about 3,400 members of the group who are confined in a camp in Iraq . The lawmakers said…
Iranian-Americans Launch Television Ad Campaign About Camp Ashraf, Iraq
PRNewswire BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The campaign to prevent another massacre at Camp Ashraf, Iraq, home to the 3,400 Iranian dissidents, at the hands of the Iraqi forces took a major step today with the launch of a television ad campaign running in the Washington, DC metropolitan area in the days leading…
President Obama: Honor America’s Promise and Stop another massacre
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